Enjoy Alison Steadman and David Troughton in Alan Bennetts Riveting Comedy

Alan Bennett’s rich comedy Enjoy comes to Milton Keynes Theatre (12 – 17 Apr 2010) as part of a limited eight week tour with the original West End cast including Alison Steadman and David Troughton.

Alan Bennett is one of Britain’s most loved and brilliant playwrights acclaimed as one of theatre’s greatest observers of the English way of life. A rarely-performed gem, Enjoy opened to the biggest advance of any of his plays in the West End in February 2009.

Written in 1980 this dark comedy is set in Bennett's in his home town of Leeds where an ageing couple are living in the city’s last back-to-back. With the demolition of the area in progress, Wilf and Connie are soon to be re-housed in a brand new maisonette with a waste disposal unit and non-slip vinyl flooring! When a sociologist comes to observe them in their daily life, normality takes a decidedly atypical turn…

Alison Steadman is one of our best-loved and most prolific actresses, on stage, she created the role of the monstrous Beverly in Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party, and starred in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, for which she won an Olivier Award. Her films include Shirley Valentine, Clockwise and A Private Function, and Mike Leigh’s Life Is Sweet and Topsy Turvy. Television work includes Fat Friends, Selling Hitler, The Singing Detective, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Pride and Prejudice and recent appearances include The Worst Week of My Life, Gavin & Stacey and Fanny Hill.

David Troughton (Wilf) comes from a theatrical family: he is the son of Doctor Who actor Patrick Troughton, elder brother of Michael Troughton, and father of both Sam Troughton and Warwickshire cricketer Jim Troughton. He is known for his many TV appearances , New Tricks, Dr Who, Midsomer Murders, A Very Pecular Practice and Born and Bred to name but a few. His stage work is extensive having performed with the RSC and National Theatre.

They are joined by Richard Glaves, Carol Macready, Josie Walker, Steven Alexander, Jake Ferretti, Victor Gardner, John Gould, Chris MacCalphy, James Parkes and Julian Pindar.

Classic Bennett, laced with the most memorable comic one liners and unexpected twists and turns , Enjoy guarantees to shock and delight in equal measure. Book your tickets at Milton Keynes Theatre Box Office 0844 871 7652 (bkg fee) or visit www.ambassadortickets.com/miltonkeynes (bkg fee)